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...MUST-SEE ON ANY TOUR OF OUR HEADQUARTERS IN New York City is the office of senior editor Howard Chua-Eoan, who edited this week's cover story on the Rocky Mountain boom in addition to our coverage of Michael Jackson's woes and the frantic behind-the-scenes fine-tuning of Bill Clinton's health-care proposal. Instead of a more traditional ficus plant, a 6-ft.-tall inflatable Godzilla peers from one corner of Howard's work space, while Gumby covers the exit. A prehistoric pteranodon (with a 6-ft. wingspan) swoops over story conferences from its perch...
...convoy carrying 175 tons of food and medicine reached the besieged Muslim quarter of Mostar in Bosnia-Herzegovina after being held up by Croats. But for three days the trucks were prevented from leaving the town by frantic Muslims, who feared a Croat attack should the convoy depart. U.S. airdrops added to the relief effort for the city's 55,000 Muslims, cut off for two months by a Croat blockade...
Such self-inflicted torments tend to undermine the credibility of Nelson's assault on biracial sexism. So do a number of unnecessarily graphic revelations about Nelson's frantic sex life and drug abuse, which seem to have been included to pad the manuscript. Despite these flaws, Volunteer Slavery is a compelling firsthand report from the corporate combat zone where racial and sexual lines converge and blur in the most dehumanizing ways...
Another example of this phenomena is "Dirty Day," dedicated to poet, writer and barfly Charles Bukowski. Bono assumes an eerie falsetto, with a frantic buildup of the Edge's guitar for the first part of the song. Yet the song inexplicably swoops from this to slow melancholy, and then to a hopeful throbbing. It plumbs the emotional heights and depths, yet this just makes it all the more difficult to listen...
Harvard is keeping a close watch on a few pieces of legislation amid the hundreds of billions of dollars in spending and taxation packages that have been making their way around Capitol Hill in Washington in the frantic recent weeks...